The best way that I can describe this blog is that it is as complex as I am. After all, I have many interests, many concerns and a few 'pet peeves'(otherwise known as issues that I am still dealing with) and a thing or two that just simply 'IGNITES' this Czech/German/Polish Temper.
This is where I testify that I am alive and part of the whole world and to save other people from repeating my mistakes and/or bad experiences.
Sandy Hook 12.14.12, never again. www.causes.com/neveragain

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Friday, October 19, 2012

T.G.I.F. For The Environment.

This Is Why I Oppose Both the Keystone XL Pipeline and Mitt Romney/Ryan/Mandel.

While hugely successful, the Clean Water
Act now faces another threat, its biggest in 40 years: the EPA's
attempts to gut strong regulations that worked and replace them with
unproven pollution trading provisions.

Many may wonder why I am so concern with water and what does it have to do with me being from the Greater Cleveland area of Ohio--This is why-->As written in Wikipedia-->

Environmental concerns

The Cuyahoga River at one time was one of the most polluted rivers in the United States. The reach from Akron to Cleveland was devoid of fish. A Kent State University symposium, convened one year before the infamous 1969 fire, described one section of the river:

From 1,000 feet below Lower Harvard Bridge to Newburgh and South
Shore Railroad Bridge, the channel becomes wider and deeper and the
level is controlled by Lake Erie. Downstream of the railroad bridge to
the harbor, the depth is held constant by dredging, and the width is
maintained by piling along both banks. The surface is covered with the
brown oily film observed upstream as far as the Southerly Plant
effluent. In addition, large quantities of black heavy oil floating in
slicks, sometimes several inches thick, are observed frequently. Debris
and trash are commonly caught up in these slicks forming an unsightly
floating mess. Anaerobic action is common as the dissolved oxygen is
seldom above a fraction of a part per million. The discharge of cooling
water increases the temperature by 10 °F(5.56 °C) to 15 °F(8.33 °C). The velocity is negligible, and sludge accumulates on the bottom. Animal life does not exist. Only the algae Oscillatoria grows [sic]
along the piers above the water line. The color changes from gray-brown
to rusty brown as the river proceeds downstream. Transparency is less
than 0.5 feet in this reach. This entire reach is grossly polluted.[11]

At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868.[12] The largest river fire in 1952 caused over $1 million in damage to boats and a riverfront office building.[13] Fires erupted on the river several more times before June 22, 1969, when a river fire captured the attention of Time
magazine, which described the Cuyahoga as the river that "oozes rather
than flows" and in which a person "does not drown but decays".[14]

And In addition to that My Late Father was a Chemist who worked for one of the Chemical Companies which had the job of Cleaning Up Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River.
I also have concerns about the air, because I still have vage memories of when my Grandfather worked security, part-time, at a Steel Plant to supplement his Social Security. I remember sometimes my dad would bring my sister and me with him to pick up our Grandfather. I still remember no matter what we did, we would smell the stink of 'rotten eggs' when we got so close to the plant, especially at the plant, and would still smell it, until we finally got out of range.
THE LAST THING THAT WE AMERICANS CAN DO IS TO GO BACK TO THOSE BAD OLD DAYS OF RIVER FIRES AND THAT MUCH AIR POLLUTION--THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, THEREFORE WE NEED 21ST CENTURY SOLUTIONS TO OUR ENERGY NEEDS.That is also Why the Last thing that We Need to Do Is to Send Romney/Ryan/Mandel to Washington.

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